[Announce] kdb v1.5-beta2 is available

Tigran Aivazian tigran at veritas.com
Thu Sep 28 06:44:46 PDT 2000


On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> >Maybe it still applies to beta2, otherwise I can redo it on beta2.
> >Basically, I suggest to move kdb_vmlist_check() out of vmalloc.c because
> >it makes kdb patch less intrusive into non-kdb-specific code.
> 
> I have to agree with Scott on this one.  A kdb hook for a particular
> area needs to be in the source where all the other work for that area
> is done.  It picks up unexpected kernel changes much faster and tells
> people who are integrating multiple patches that there might be
> conflicts in that area.

Ok, I suppose it makes sense - I do not strongly disagree and also confess
that one of the reasons is that my vx-linux patch also contains other
changes to vmalloc.c and I never trust patch(1)'s "hunking succeeded"
stuff and always check the conflicts manually, just in case :)

Regards,
Tigran





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